Dear HAS members,
Happy New Year! I hope everybody had a restful holiday season. Our Vasilopita celebration this year is going to be on Sunday, January 31st. We will meet at 6:00 pm for dinner and Vasilopita at Alpha Soda Restaurant in Alpharetta. The cost of the event will be $15 ($10 for students).
Please e-mail me georgenakos@clayton.edu to let us know if you are coming because we need to tell the restaurant how many people will attend. Again, please RSVP to enable proper organization of the event.
Alpha Soda Restaurant
11760 Haynes Bridge Road
Alpharetta, GA 30009
Phone 770-442-3102
We are looking forward to seeing everybody on Sunday, January 31st!
The HAS Board
President: George Nakos
Vice President: Evangelos Theodorou
Vice President for Activities: Theofilos Moysiadis
Treasurer: Mina Giannakakos
Secretary: Panagiotis Kintis
Join us for our annual Apokriatiko Glendi (Mardi Gras) Celebration!!!
Please join us for Greek Community Night with the Atlanta Hawks!
Details are listed (below) and on the attached flier. Feel free to forward along to your database, families, and anyone who may be interested!
GREEK COMMUNITY NIGHT WITH THE ATLANTA HAWKS!
Join us for Greek Community Night on Saturday, February 20th, 2016 as the Hawks take on Greek NBA player, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and the Milwaukee Bucks at 7:30pm at Philips Arena!
The following items will be included in the night:
Discounted game ticket for each person
$10 worth of food and beverage credit built onto each ticket
Group welcome for your group on the Jumbo-tron
Atlanta Hawks vs. Milwaukee Bucks
Saturday, February 20th, 2016
7:30pm at Philips Arena
Sections 307-314 – $26 each
Sections 109-110 – $60 each
Section 112 – $76 each
Ticket prices and availability are subject to change so order your tickets today! TICKETS WILL SELL OUT! To order by phone, or for better seat locations or different games, please contact Ryan Coller at 404-878-3714 or by email at ryan.coller@hawks.com. Attached is a copy of the flier for your convenience as well.
Join us for a lecture regarding the prospects for a solution to the Cyprus problem, given by the Honorary Consul of Greece, Giorgos Panagiotidis and the Honorary Consul of Cyprus, Polyxeni Potter. The talk will be given in English, and will begin at 7 pm.
Please join the Hellenic Studies Program of Holy Transfiguration for their annual Greek Independence celebration. A luncheon will be served and the Honorable Consul of Cyprus, Polyxeni Potter will give the keynote address. Please see the attached flyer for details.
Dimitri Vassilakis – Saxophonist, Vocalist, Composer & Educator will be in Atlanta for an evening performance on Sunday, March 27th, at 8 pm – at the Churchill Grounds Jazz Club.
Click here for more information on Dimitri – and follow this link to purchase his music. We hope you can join us for this special performance!
Please join us for our next Book Club gathering at the home of Barbara and Christos Kiriazis – where we will discuss “Little Infamies” by Panos Karnezis. The discussion will be moderated by Eleni Clement.
The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) is pleased to host SYNAGONISTIS: GREEK JEWS IN THE NATIONAL RESISTANCE, an exhibition about Greek Jews who escaped Nazi forces and joined Greece’s resistance movements during the Holocaust. The exhibition is on display at the MJCCA’s Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery through May 15, 2016.
SYNAGONISTIS is a traveling exhibition presented under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Greece and the Greek Secretariat General for Communication. It is made possible through the support of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum in Athens, the Greek Embassy in Washington, the Greek Consulate in Atlanta, the Atlanta Regional Office of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the MJCCA’s Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery.
Compiled by the Jewish Museum of Greece, SYNAGONISTIS is the product of five years of research into the personal stories of men and women of various Jewish communities around Greece who took up arms and headed to the mountains to join the armed Resistance in the country. Photographs, documents, letters, proclamations, underground newspapers, and other relevant materials are presented for the first time. “Synagonistis” is the Greek word for “fellow fighter” and it’s exactly this notion that the exhibition is highlighting: Greek Jews fought side by side with Greek Christians against the same enemy, in defense of the same country. Therefore, it is our duty to save them from oblivion and this is the goal of this exhibition. “It is also a voice against anti-Semitism and racism,” said Press Counselor Christos Failadis, exhibition manager on the part of the Greek Embassy in Washington, D.C
The Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery is located at the MJCCA at Zaban Park, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Gallery hours: Monday–Thursday, 6 a.m.–10 p.m.; Friday, 6 a.m.–6 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–6 p.m.; and Sunday, 8 a.m.–8 p.m. Admission is free, and the community is welcome. To organize a group visit contact Kim Goodfriend, Gallery Manager, at 678.812.4071.
Consulate of Greece
Tower Place 100, Suite 1670
3340 Peachtree Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30326
Tel: 404 261 3313
Fax: 404 262 2798
Email: grcon.atl@mfa.gr
www.mfa.gr/usa/en/consulate-in-atlanta
Lykion ton Ellinidon Atlanta Chapter and Samaria Foundation:
Save The Date: ‘Zorba the Greek’ in Atlanta.
Sunday, April 17, at 2:30 pm
Location: Emory University’s White Hall (301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta)
Regional premiere of the newly-restored version of the movie introduced
by Mrs. Katherine Quinn. This will be a one- time only screening.
Tickets will become available for sale on line at www.samariaga.com
and at Carlos Hall.
$10 general admission
$5 students
